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| BJP terms NC-Congress pro-separatist, NPP calls NC mother of terrorism | | Delhi's questionable indifference | | Rustam
JAMMU, Mar 15: The Kashmiri leadership's motivated demand seeking removal of AFSPA from the State, the March 13 terror attack at the CRPF camp in Bemina area of Srinagar that left five "disarmed" CRPF jawans dead and 11 others, including three civilians, injured and the demand seeking return of the body of executed Kashmiri terrorist Afzal Guru have evoked a very strong reaction from the BJP and the NPP. The BJP and the NPP MLAs and the JSM lone MLA, who had been exposing the Kashmiri MLAs and accusing them of demoralizing the security forces and siding with separatists on the floor of the Assembly till the other day, yesterday tore into them outside the Assembly and warned them that their pro-separatist activities will not be tolerated.
The BJP took to the streets across Jammu province to register protest against the NC-Congress coalition Government and charged it with promoting separatism by speaking the militants' language. Thousands of BJP workers, along with senior party leaders, including MLAs, held massive demonstrations. In Jammu, they tried to gherao the Assembly, which has virtually become a den of anti-India and pro-separatist activities, and clashed with the police which under instructions from the pro-separatist elements in the Government beating and thrashing them. The police detained some of the BJP protestors.
The BJP top leadership also used the floor of Parliament to expose the Congress-led UPA Government and accused it of being very soft towards Pakistan and terror. The leadership took to task the Union Government for hosting lunch to Pakistan Prime Minister, who was on a private visit to India on March 9 and lamented that Pakistan reciprocated the otherwise uncalled for official gesture by launching a terror attack in Srinagar. Several BJP and Shiv Sena leaders were one while denouncing the Union Government. Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said: "Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf, who visited India on March 9 for religious purpose, was treated well but his country did not bother to stop exporting terror in India". She also took to task the NC for demanding revocation of the AFSPA.
On the other hand, NPP chief patron dismissed the National Conference as the "mother of terrorism" and demanded fresh elections in the State. He said that the present dispensation is nothing but a dispensation of pro-separatists and that it has become a threat to national security. He not only lambasted the NC leadership, but he also did not spare the Union Government. He charged the Union Government with opening all routes through which Pakistan-based terrorists could enter the State and cause terror attacks.
"Farooq Abdullah and his National Conference are threat to national security. There is recorded proof of Dr. Farooq Abdullah's involvement with JKLF. It was a blunder on the part of Rajiv Gandhi to join hands with National Conference only because unseeded Congressmen in the State were dying for power for their individual gains. That culture persists even today…The Union Home Ministry had accepted on the floors of the Parliament that 243 Kashmiris had returned from POK via Kathmandu to Jammu and Kashmir and they are being settled by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir. What does this mean? Has the Government of India opened all routes for the mercenaries or terrorists to enter Jammu and Kashmir via Nepal or by some other route?", he, in fact, wrote.
This is the position. The manner in which the BJP, NPP and the JSM have reacted and the scathing attack they launched against the NC and the Congress clearly established two things. One, the struggle between the nationalists and separatists have become bitter, with the nationalists hitting the nail on the head and indicating their firm resolve to fight out the separatists of all varieties. The other was that the people of Jammu province and the Kashmiri leadership have nothing in common between them.
In any case, the way the BJP, NPP and the JSM have conducted themselves during the past few days could be described as a positive development. In fact, it could be construed as a big slap on the face of the separatists, including those belonging to the NC. But this is just not enough. The nationalists have to intensify their defeat-separatists movement in and outside the Assembly. This has become absolutely necessary. |
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